On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kirk M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True enough although I can't pinpoint the wp-testers message that states it. > But for what it's worth, the makers of the Flash based uploader are supposed > to come out with a new version of the SWF Uploader before 2.7 is released. > The current version is supposedly not compatible.
The problem is that Flash 10 had security changes that invalidated the way WordPress used to employ the Flash uploader. It used to be that you would click the upload button, and then a script would call Flash to work in the background to open up the file browser so that you could select multiple files, etc. You can't do that in Flash 10[1], because it no longer lets a separate script initiate browsing and uploading functions. (The reason is that malicious sites could use such scripts to trick users into doing things they didn't want to do.) So the Flash uploader that WordPress uses, SWFUpload, has been updated to address this issue in the (currently beta) 2.2.0 release, and WordPress 2.7 (also in beta) is using SWFUpload 2.2.0. [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_02.html#head3 _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
